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c/reconstitution·submitted 1 year ago by u/runa_cabrera

bacteriostatic water vs units — genuinely asking which matters more

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Confession thread, sort of. I went from 10mg to 2.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 13 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway. So now I have…

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u/yusuf_achebe120 points·1 year ago

Cosigning. The concentration on the vial in marker is load-bearing.

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u/declared_value_dv74 points·1 year ago

Cosigning.

Adding to this: bacteriostatic water is doing more work than the comment implies.

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